It used to be done regularly and it
worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional
propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and
murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did
not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would begin.
And the nation, totally shaken, in pain, and in disarray, would collapse like a
house of cards, once the first NATO boots hit its ground. Such scenarios were
re-enacted, again and again, from Yugoslavia to Iraq.

But suddenly, something significant has
happened. This horrific lawlessness, this chaos stopped; was deterred. The West
keeps using the same tactics, it tries to terrorize independent-minded
countries, to frighten people into submission, to overthrow what it defines as
‘regimes’, but its power, its monstrously destructive power has all of a sudden
become ineffective. It hits, and the attacked nation shakes, screams, sheds
blood, but keeps standing, keeps proudly erect.

*

What we are experiencing is a great
moment in human history. Imperialism has not yet been defeated, but it is
losing its global grip on power. Now we have to clearly understand ‘Why?’, so
we can continue our struggle, with even greater determination, with even
greater effectiveness.

First of all, by now we know that the
West cannot fight. It can spend trillions on ‘defense’, it can build nuclear
bombs, ‘smart missiles’ and strategic warplanes. But it is too cowardly, too
spoiled to risk the lives of its soldiers. It either kills remotely, or by
using regional mercenaries. Whenever it becomes clear that the presence of its
troops would be required, it backs up.

Secondly, it, the West, is totally
horrified of the fact that there are now two super-powerful countries – China
and Russia – which are unwilling to abandon their allies. Washington and London
do all they can to smear Russia and to intimidate China. Russia is being
provoked continuously: by propaganda, by military bases, sanctions and by new
and newer bizarre mass media inventions that depict it as the villain in all
imaginable circumstances. China has been provoked practically and insanely, ‘on
all fronts’ – from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and the so-called ‘Uyghur Issue’,
to trade.

Any strategy that could weaken these
two countries, is applied. Yet, Russia and China do not crumble. They do not
surrender. And they do not abandon their friends. Instead, they are building
great railroads in Africa and Asia, they educate people from almost all poor
and desperate countries, and stand by those who are being terrorized by both
North America and Europe.

Thirdly, all the countries in the world
are now clearly aware of what would happen to them, if they give up and get
‘liberated’ by the Western empire. Iraq, Honduras, Indonesia, Libya and
Afghanistan, are the ‘best’ examples. Submitting themselves to the West,
countries can only expect misery, absolute collapse and the ruthless extraction
of their resources. The poorest country in Asia – Afghanistan – has totally
collapsed under NATO occupation.

The suffering and pain of the Afghan
and Iraqi people is very well known to the citizens of Iran and Venezuela. They
are not giving up, because no matter how tough their life is under sanctions
and the West-administered terror, they are well-aware of the fact that things
could get worse, much worse, if their countries were to be occupied and governed
by the Washington and London-injected maniacs. And everyone knows the fate of
the people living in Palestine or Golan Heights, places which have been overrun
by the closest ally of the West in the Middle East, Israel.

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Of course, there are other reasons why
the West cannot get any of its adversaries to kneel. One is – that the toughest
ones are left. Russia, Cuba, China, North Korea (DPRK), Iran, Syria and
Venezuela are not going to run away from the battlefield. These are the most
determined nations on earth. These are the countries that have already lost
thousands, millions, even tens of millions of their people, in the fight
against Western imperialism and colonialism.

If one is following the latest attacks
of the West carefully, the scenario is pathetic, almost grotesque: Washington
and often the EU, too, are trying hard; they are hitting, they are spending
billions of dollars, using the local mercenaries (or call it ‘local
opposition’), and then they quickly withdraw after wretched but anticipated
defeat. So far, Venezuela has survived. Syria survived. Iran survived. China is
fighting horrible Western-backed subversions, but it is proudly surviving.
Russia is standing tall.

This is a tremendous moment in human
history. For the first time, Western imperialism is being not only defeated,
but fully unveiled and humiliated. Many are now laughing at it, openly. But we
should not celebrate, yet. We should understand what and why this is happening,
and then continue fighting. There are many, many battles ahead us. But we are
on the right track.

Let them try. We know how to fight. We
know how to prevail. We have already fought fascism, in many of its forms. We
know what freedom is. Their ‘freedom’ is not our freedom. Their ‘liberty’ is
not our liberty. What they call ‘democracy’ is not how we want our people to
rule and to be ruled. Let them go away; we, our people, do not want them! They
cannot overthrow our systems, because they are, precisely our systems! Systems
that we want, that our people want; systems we are ready to fight and die for!

Andre Vltchek is philosopher, novelist,
filmmaker and investigative journalist. He’s a creator of Vltchek’s World in
Word and Images, and a writer that penned a number of books, including China
and Ecological Civilization. He writes especially for the online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook.” Courtesy